UNESCO/The People’s Republic of China – The Great Wall Co-Sponsored Fellowships Programme 2025-2026 – YOA

Deadline: February 12, 2025

Applications are open for the UNESCO/The People’s Republic of China – The Great Wall Co-Sponsored Fellowships Programme 2025-2026. With a view to selling the human useful resource improvement and capability constructing of creating international locations and to enhancing worldwide exchanges within the area of schooling, tradition, communication, science and know-how and the friendship amongst peoples of the world, UNESCO and the Government of the People’s Republic of China will co-sponsor a complete quantity of seventy-5 (75) fellowships for superior research in numerous fields, at undergraduate and postgraduate ranges, through the tutorial yr 2025-2026.

Tenable at a specific quantity of Chinese universities, these fellowships are meant for college kids and researchers who plan to pursue diploma study on the postgraduate degree or undertake particular person analysis with periodic steering from the assigned supervisors in China. A candidate could apply for both a one-yr Visiting Scholar programme (as General or Senior scholar) or a Master’s or Doctoral Degree programme with the period of study starting from 2 to five years. Subject to the provision of study programmes on the chosen universities, the study programmes will likely be taught in English or Chinese. Candidates making use of for the Chinese-taught programmes ought to have acquired a sure degree of Chinese proficiency earlier than enterprise analysis or learning of their fields of curiosity.

The beneficiary international locations of UNESCO-China Fund-in-Trust (CFIT) Project are inspired to submit candidates within the related fields of study in Education. Given the excessive precedence that UNESCO locations on Gender Equality, Africa and SIDS, girls candidates and candidates from Africa and SIDS are strongly inspired to apply.

Eligibility

• Applicants should meet the eligibility necessities in age, language and tutorial {qualifications} for the chosen study programme:
  • One Year Scholarship Programme
    • Candidates making use of for General Scholar Programmes should maintain a highschool diploma and shouldn’t be older than the age of forty-5 (45); whereas those that apply for Senior Scholar Programmes should maintain a grasp’s diploma or an affiliate professor place (or above) and never be older than the age of fifty (50).
    • English proficiency is required. For a candidate making use of for a Chinese-taught programme as General or Senior visiting scholar, her/is Chinese proficiency should attain HSK Level 3.
  • Degree Programmes
    • Candidates making use of for Master’s Degree Programmes should maintain a bachelor’s diploma and shouldn’t be older than the age of thirty-5 (35); whereas those that apply for Doctoral Degree Programmes should maintain a grasp’s diploma and shouldn’t be older than the age of forty (40).
    • English proficiency is required. For a candidate making use of for a Chinese-taught diploma programme, her/is Chinese proficiency should attain HSK Level 4.
  • Meeting the admission necessities of the utilized universities in phrases of tutorial means, language proficiency and different related standards.
  • Be in good well being, each mentally and bodily.

Eligible Countries

• AFRICA (46 Member States): Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cabo Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Togo, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe
• ASIA AND THE PACIFIC (38 Member States): Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Cook Islands, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Kazakhstan, Kiribati, Kyrgyzstan, Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Maldives, Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Federated States of), Mongolia, Myanmar, Nauru, Nepal, Niue, Palau, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Tonga, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Viet Nam
• ARAB STATES (13 Member States): Algeria, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, State of Palestine, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, Yemen
• LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBEAN (26 Member States): Argentina, Belize, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Venezuela (Bolivian Republic of)
• EUROPE (12 Member States): Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Republic of Moldova, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Serbia, Ukraine 

Application

• Step 1: Read rigorously the Application Guidelines for the 2025-2026 UNESCO/China Co-Sponsored Fellowships Programme to know the necessities for eligible candidatures and the procedures for the submission of application.
• Step 2: Contact the National Commission for UNESCO of your home nation to investigate the application procedures on the nationwide degree. Click here for the contact data of the National Commissions for UNESCO.
• Step 3: Submit your on-line application, together with the required supporting paperwork within the Chinese Government Scholarship Information System.
• Step 4: Submit your on-line application kind and the supporting paperwork to the National Commission for UNESCO of your home nation.
• Step 5: As quickly as you’re knowledgeable by the National Commission for UNESCO of your nation that you’re nominated as a candidate for this programme, you need to talk your the net application kind and the supporting paperwork to [email protected]. 
• Step 6: Letters of nomination, together with the copies of the net Application Forms and all of the application paperwork ought to be submitted to UNESCO by National Commissions by 12 February 2025 on the newest. Candidates who submit incomplete functions or submit the net functions past this deadline gained’t be thought of.

For extra data, go to The Great Wall Co-Sponsored Fellowships.